Lying about the Wolf: Essays in Culture and EducationMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 01.03.1997 - 336 Seiten Solway explains that the current generation of students, raised in a nonhistorical and iconic environment, do not live in time as an emergent, continuous medium in which the complexities of experience are parsed and organized. Their psychological world is largely devoid of syntax - of causal, differential, and temporal relations between events. The result is precisely what we see about us: a cultural world characterized by a vast subpopulation of young (and not so young) people for whom the past is an unsubstantiated rumour and the future an unacknowledged responsibility. Solway claims that contemporary educators have become cultural speculators who disregard a basic truth about how the mind develops: that it needs to be grounded in reality and time. In education, as in almost every other cultural institution, the sense of reality and the dynamic of time have "virtually" disappeared, leading to the deep disconnectedness we experience on every level of "human grammar," from the organization of the community to the organization of the sentence. Lying about the Wolf is not only an exploration of current pedagogical issues but also, and perhaps primarily, a cultural analysis for which the subject of education provides a focus. Solway argues that we cannot hope to solve the educational problem unless we are prepared to deal with the larger cultural predicament. |
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... communication skills , " a practical introduction to the study of vocabulary , grammar , and the " technical aspects of English ” via an increasing number of what are somewhat pompously called “ foundational courses . ” Naturally , many ...
... communication skills , " a practical introduction to the study of vocabulary , grammar , and the " technical aspects of English ” via an increasing number of what are somewhat pompously called “ foundational courses . ” Naturally , many ...
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... communication skills " is a proposition no one can reasonably deny . The issue is , rather , how to go about doing this . I am convinced that the insensate ramification of writing - skills courses , whether " foundational ” or ...
... communication skills " is a proposition no one can reasonably deny . The issue is , rather , how to go about doing this . I am convinced that the insensate ramification of writing - skills courses , whether " foundational ” or ...
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... communication or reflection . " 5 And Benjamin Lee Whorf concludes that “ the background linguistic system ( the grammar ) of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ...
... communication or reflection . " 5 And Benjamin Lee Whorf concludes that “ the background linguistic system ( the grammar ) of each language is not merely a reproducing instrument for voicing ideas but rather is itself the shaper of ...
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... communication , at levels that the instruments of grammatical technology per se are incapable of sounding . And it is precisely these sub - Plimsollian levels that constitute the gravity and magnitude of the quandary we are in . What I ...
... communication , at levels that the instruments of grammatical technology per se are incapable of sounding . And it is precisely these sub - Plimsollian levels that constitute the gravity and magnitude of the quandary we are in . What I ...
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... communication can in certain circumstances be extraordinarily fast . The paradox is only apparent . High - velocity communication , of course , may be either thin and impoverished ( little content ) or rich and thick ( polyvalent ...
... communication can in certain circumstances be extraordinarily fast . The paradox is only apparent . High - velocity communication , of course , may be either thin and impoverished ( little content ) or rich and thick ( polyvalent ...
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2 Dead Teachers Society | 32 |
3 Balnibarbian Architecture | 41 |
4 The Anecdotal Function | 68 |
5 What about Food? | 78 |
6 Script and Nondescript | 94 |
7 The Bipolar Paradigm | 108 |
8 Charlie Dont Surf | 136 |
9 Teaching Down or Learning Up | 153 |
Notes | 189 |
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